518 HEMIONITIS. 



3*. V. dclilis, Kulin ; rhizome creeping ; scales linear, pale-brown ; fr. sessile, 

 tufted, ligulate, curved, blunt, narrowed at base, lg-2 in. 1., 1 lin. br. ; texture 

 rigidly subcoriaceous ; midrib distinct from the base to the tip ; veins distant, 

 simple, oblique, very short and obscure ; sorus in a furrow near the midrib on 

 both sides in the upper half of the frond, the edge beyond it fiat and not thick. — 

 Linn.8G.p.G7. ■ 



Hab. Sarawak, Borneo, Thos. Lobh. 



.3*. V. sidcata, Kuhn ; rhizome short-creeping ; scales dense, lanceolate, pale- 

 brown ; fr. crowded, ligulate, obtuse, sessile, narrowed to the base, 2-4-in. 1., 

 "I^in. br. ; sorusm an intramarginal deep furrow confined to the very much thick- 

 ened upper half of the frond where the midrib and veins are quite lost ; midrib 

 visible in the barren lower half ; veins forked ; margin beyond the sorus as thick 

 as the central portion of the lamina. — Linn. 8G. i?. 68. 



Hab. Ceylon, Thivaites, 3807, and Society Islands. 



5*. V. Orbignyana, Mett., Kuhn, Linn. SG. p. G7, Bolivia, differs from stipitata 

 by its narrower frond and broader gradually narrowed scales, obtusely densely 

 toothed, and formed of several rows of cells ; and V. gracilis, Moritz, Kuhn, 

 Linn. 36. 67, Columbia, is Y\kQ Karsteniana, but with ovate scales, a short winged 

 stem, more ascending veins, and sorus nearer the margin. 



LIX.— HEMIONITIS. Page 898—9. 



1. H. Zollingcri, Kurz ; fr. tufted in a dense rosette ; sterile nearly sessile, 

 oblanceolate, entire, 3-4 in. 1. ; texture membranous ; main veins distinct nearly 

 to edge, with copious fine irregular areolte between them ; fertile linear, slightly 

 repand, 3 in. 1., \ in. br., with a 5^ 1^-2 in. 1. ; sori in 2-3 rows parallel with 

 midrib and edge, anastomosing by short cross-bars. — Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 

 39. part 2. p. 90. t. 5. 



Hab. 3 s.\- A, Zollinger. 



LX.— ACROSTIC HUM, L. Page 399—425. 



1*. A. glabratum, Mett.; rhizome slender, wide-creeping; scales minute, 

 oblong, ferruginous, acute; barren fr. oblanceolate-spathulate, I5-2 in. 1., 4-5 

 lin. br., the edge revolute, its st. f-| in. 1. ; texture coriaceous ; surfaces glabrous ; 

 veins lax, forked ; fertile fr. linear, 4-5 in. 1., 2 lin. br., with a st. 1 in. 1. — Ann. 

 /Sc. Nat. ser. 4. vol. 15. p. 55. 



Hab. New Caledonia, Vieillard, 



6*. A. Tatei, Baker ; rhizome threadlike, wide-creeping, thinly clothed with 

 minute membranous brown broad lanceolate sccdes ; barren fr. lanceolate, 

 6-8 in. 1., 9-10 lin. br., narrowed gradually to both ends, irregularly crispato- 

 repand ; st. \ in., stramineous, furfuraceous ; texture membranous ; both sides 

 green, naked ; veins distant, distinct, simple or forked, stop))ing sliort 1 line 

 witliin the edge and distinctly thickened at the tip; fertile fr. ratli«r shorter 

 and narrower, the st. similar. ^"ifc^ 



Hab. Chontales, Nicaragua, Ralph Tale. 



6*. A. ramjjans, Baker ; rhizome filiform, wide-creepiug ; scales firm, lanceo- 

 late, dense, minute, brown ; barren fr. lanceolate, 1-2-3 in. 1., f-^ in.br., bluntisb, 

 narrowed at the base very gradually into a pale stramineous st. 1-2 in. ]., 

 clothed throughout with deciduous ovate-lanceolate scales ; texture rigidly sub- 

 coriaceous ; surfaces naked ; veins subdistant, distinct, ascending, simple or 

 forked ; fertile fr. much smaller, with a longer stem. 



Hab. Cuba, Wright, 3969. 



